cost benefit analysis
School-based child-parent center yields high economic benefits
The Child-Parent Center (CPC) early education program is a large-scale, federally funded intervention providing services for disadvantaged 3- to 9-year-olds in Chicago. A new cost-benefit analysis of the program has found that benefits exceeded cost…
Current violent juvenile treatment methods costly, ineffective, MU researcher finds
COLUMBIA, Mo. — In a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue — and he has the numbers to prove it.
Charles Borduin, a professor of p…
New study finds positive return on investment for states that invest in quit smoking treatments
Washington, DC, (September 14, 2010) — A new study released today by the American Lung Association, and conducted by researchers at Penn State University, finds that helping smokers quit not only saves lives but also offers favorable economic ben…